Reception 2025 - 2026

Miss Ingman

Mrs Atherton

Welcome to Reception!

Welcome to the summer term!

Miss Ingman - Goslings class. Miss Frith will teach the Goslings on a Tuesday morning.

Mrs Atherton - Cygnets class. Mrs Argent-Belcher will teach the Cygnets on a Thursday afternoon.

Mrs Aspinall, Mrs Gauterin and Mrs Capper also work and support in Reception.

Our topics for the summer term.

Summer 1 - What comes after the egg?
Summer 2 - Do turnips grow on trees?

Throughout Reception we will be exploring different themes within our provision. In Summer 1 we will be learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly, bird and a frog in our topic 'What comes after the egg?' We will be using the books 'The Odd Egg' and 'Monkey Puzzle,' to help with our learning and will begin to write simple sentences making sure to include capital letters and finger spaces. In maths we will begin to explore numbers beyond 10 and will learn how to recognise, order and represent numbers to 20. In PSED we will be learning about the importance of making good choices and being kind to those around us and the environment. In Expressive, Arts and Design we will be exploring different painting techniques and will make observational drawings / paintings of animals.

In Summer 2 we will be exploring lots of different themes within our provision including learning all about the season of summer, learning the life cycle of a plant and what they need to grow, which links to our topic ’Do turnips grow on trees.’ In literacy we will be using text 'The Enormous Turnip,' and will be using our language skills to retell the story before writing our own version. In maths we will continue to work with numbers beyond 10. We will be looking at sharing, focusing on odd and even numbers and recapping double facts to 10.

We use the Floppy Phonics scheme to teach our daily phonics lessons which has two sessions for each sound.

Please see our termly newsletters for more of what children will be learning throughout the summer term

Children need to come dressed in their PE kit every Monday.

Celebration Assembly

Celebration Assembly will be on Friday at 9 am, every third week. You will get a message from school if your child is receiving a reward.

Homework

Homework will be set on a Friday. This will be uploaded on Tapestry every Friday, along with the weekly snapshots.

Tapestry

Each week you will be able to see photographs of your child's learning on Tapestry.

Important Dates
Tuesday 20^th May – Reception Sports day – 2pm till 3pm.

Stay and play dates
Thursday 1^st May: Goslings stay and play
Thursday 8^th May: Cygnets stay and play
Wednesday 18^th June: Goslings stay and play
Tuesday 24^th June: Cygnets stay and play

We use the Development Matters guidance document to plan our curriculum. Please click here for Development Matters.

If you need to get in touch with a member of the reception team, please phone or email the school office, speak to one of us when you collect your child or send us a message via Tapestry.